1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. Find all my work at MJMunoz.com 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:15,200 Welcome to my Ultraman Zet 10 review, which I'm calling Ultra Cut-Up. This episode features 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:22,800 a horror heist, boss, bako, and seeds of destruction. This episode was a lot of fun and gave me 4 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:28,520 some thoughts on how to make it, the show in general, better. Find out why, or how, 5 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:34,840 or what, as I address a few topics that caught my attention. So the first topic, or first 6 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:40,820 thing to discuss, is Human Puppet 2 Strings of Terror. And if you watched episode 9, you'll 7 00:00:40,820 --> 00:00:44,040 know why I'm calling this Human Puppet 2, because we saw a lot of human puppeteering, 8 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:49,160 or we saw minimal human puppeteering going on in that episode. In this we get, I think 9 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:53,520 at least two people who were puppeteered, and then there's a bonus hypnotism if you 10 00:00:53,520 --> 00:01:00,280 want to count that, but it's unto an Ultraman, not a human. So, but yeah, the horror elements 11 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:07,760 and the scariness of this alien Barossa were dialed up to 11 when the actress for Yoko 12 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:13,920 was doing her like zombified brain control walk. Like, it almost looks like he's holding 13 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:18,920 her up by her skull with his hand squeezing on it. And actually, I got a lot more stuff 14 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,160 to say about Barossa, but I think I'll say that till, yeah, I'll say that for my next 15 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:27,120 point. But like, the actress's performance, she looked like she was a zombie, like she 16 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:35,000 was being controlled by her head. I took an acting class in college, in JC, and the lady 17 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:40,120 who was teaching us told us, I guess the drama teacher, she said, some people walk differently. 18 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,480 And I, what do you mean people walk? Yeah, some people walk from their toes, some people 19 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:47,680 walk from their heels, some people walk from their knees, or their hips, or their shoulders, 20 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:52,440 or different parts of their body. And you can affect a different character in yourself 21 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:58,200 if you're trying to, you know, be a real thespian by giving your characters a particular walk 22 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:03,980 or, you know, lead, or thing that they lead by when they walk. And that helps to embody 23 00:02:03,980 --> 00:02:07,080 something different. And it was really interesting because we did this exercise, and long story 24 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:12,160 short, I did different walks and I felt different ways. And I thought, oh, I guess if I really 25 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,280 want to do is I could lean into a character, I could do, be a hero, I could be a villain, 26 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:19,440 I could do this, I could do that, whatever. And whatever that lady did to change her walkup, 27 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,360 it was really cool because it didn't look human, it didn't look natural, it didn't 28 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:27,660 look alive, it didn't look like Yoko at all. It looked like someone else, it looked like 29 00:02:27,660 --> 00:02:33,440 something else. And that was very effective, so super cool. And then, you know, again, 30 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:39,200 this is a bad guy, right? A pirate, an alien who's willing to kill people for stuff, for 31 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:47,040 treasure, really. Barossa threatens Yuka that he'll crush Yoko's skull if he, and kill 32 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:53,040 her, if she doesn't help him by releasing King Joe. And what was really neat about that 33 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:59,040 was the way that the actress was performing. I couldn't tell if he was able to dial up 34 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:06,080 his sync or his connection with Yoko to control her, to have her say, you know, do you even 35 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:12,720 care about me, or whatever. She yelled at Yuka to get her to, you know, release her, 36 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,600 or release King Joe to release her. I feel like that was definitely Alien Barossa just 37 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:22,000 doing a better job of what he was doing, because the standard effect for Barossa to control 38 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:27,920 somebody is they have like dead eyes, they're kind of slack-jawed, they're barely talking, 39 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:34,000 and there's a very synthesized voice effect going on. But then that all went away, and 40 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,040 this was the actress performing as if Yoko was out of her mind in pain and terror, and 41 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:45,680 wanted help. And see, either way you slice it, it's really creepy and awful and wonderful, 42 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,680 because either she really was so much out of herself, because she's a very heroic noble 43 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:55,680 character, that she was willing, or that she was at that place where she was so desperate 44 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:01,440 for Yuka to release her that she said the things she said, or Barossa was able to so 45 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:06,960 overpower her, and I guess overwrite her will, or whatever, that he was able to puppeteer 46 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:14,000 her in such a masterful way with such finesse. And either way it's creepy, like I said. So 47 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:22,000 that was really neat. Pirate Ship Revenge. This pirate, Alien Barossa, wanted treasure, 48 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,160 has a bunch of swords, has a bunch of weapons, has a bunch of items from different Kaiju, 49 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:32,480 which is super cool to think about, and is here on Earth, or still here on Earth, because 50 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:39,920 they want King Joe back, because King Joe is his ship, and yeah, that's kind of it. 51 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:44,160 King Joe's his ship, he wants it back, and that's why I made the joke of Pirate Ship 52 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:48,440 Revenge. He's also enacting revenge on these humans to take his ship. It's really cool 53 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:52,960 that he has all these different weapons that we can see. He's got this sort of blaster, 54 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:57,120 we get to see by the end of the episode he's got a dozen swords or so, which is pretty 55 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:01,840 cool. And then we also get to see, ah, that's what I was thinking about, okay. And then 56 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:07,120 we also get to see that he has the hair of some Kaiju that enables him to become invisible, 57 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:16,360 which was incredible. And yeah, I don't know, see, I didn't catch it last episode, I thought 58 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:23,200 that Ultraman Z totally grabbed all the medals away from Borosa as he was trying to pull 59 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,040 them to him. But maybe I was wrong, because he dropped three medals this episode, which 60 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:33,600 enabled the power-up weapon, and I don't know if those were supposed to be other medals 61 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,960 that he had, and he was just going for three more to make at least six in his possession, 62 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:48,280 or what the deal was with that. But, you know, definitely a pirate, and his cutthroatness 63 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:54,500 and his, I guess cleverness and infiltration and things like that all speak well to this 64 00:05:54,500 --> 00:06:03,160 guy being a pirate who ravages and raids and steals things from people through force, and 65 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:10,400 that's pretty intense, so that was cool. Speaking of power, Bako makes a comment in passing 66 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,560 about too much power, and it's about King Joe, and he's not sure man's ready to have 67 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:18,900 this kind of power yet, and it kind of ties into last episode at the end there was this 68 00:06:18,900 --> 00:06:25,440 ominous shot of part of the King Joe wreckage being carted off to storage's facility, to 69 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:30,360 storage's storage facility, in order for them to work on it and make this, you know, new 70 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:37,020 mech that they're going to make, and that's interesting, but then Boros' hand shot up 71 00:06:37,020 --> 00:06:40,040 out of the debris, and it seemed like he was going to be in trouble, which he proved to 72 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:44,840 be in this episode, so was that ominous stuff about that, or was it talking about something 73 00:06:44,840 --> 00:06:50,760 with King Joe's power? It might be. There's kind of a lot happening, a lot of stuff going 74 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:56,000 quickly in these episodes, as much as, so I'm not going to lie about it. Eight and nine 75 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,520 I thought were kind of weak, ten I thought was very strong, but it was very narrowly 76 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:03,200 focused and there were a lot of little things that went by that almost felt like they might 77 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:08,400 be seeds planted for the future. I don't know for sure that that's what they are. I think 78 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:12,080 I vaguely remember from watching it previously, yes, but as far as this goes, they could just 79 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:16,360 be asides or little things that are mentioned and not brought up again, but we don't really 80 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:24,760 know that yet, and we'll have to see, we'll have to see what happened. So, I don't know, 81 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,800 I don't know what to do with that, but just kind of something interesting to note, but 82 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,520 I wonder, you know, what's Baco saying and how dangerous will this technology be? And 83 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:37,120 it's kind of funny because right now in 2023 we're in the era of everybody being afraid 84 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:42,480 of ChatGDP and the other AI things, even though, you know, I hear some people saying, no, it's 85 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:46,240 not really true AI, it's just a language model, but then there's this author I listen to, 86 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:52,560 she says, no, ChatGDP 4 is great and I can co-write with this thing and it's amazing. 87 00:07:52,560 --> 00:08:00,120 I'm more of the opinion that everything is up to how it's used and I'm not scared of 88 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,080 it, but I also want to learn about it so I can better understand it so I can use it properly, 89 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:09,120 which I guess, you know, maybe Baco's saying, hey, we need to slow down because mankind 90 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,600 didn't develop this technology. Youka brings up certain technologies, the Industrial Revolution 91 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:17,560 and other things that mankind adapted to for the better, and I think there's a lot of strong 92 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,720 arguments you could make to say that the Industrial Revolution made things a little worse in some 93 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:29,360 ways, but I'm a capitalist and I'm pro-human flourishing, so to the degrees that it contributed 94 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,280 to human flourishing, that's great, but then again, there's a lot of things that were said 95 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:36,960 to have been made for human flourishing or human betterment that I think ultimately we're 96 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:41,060 seeing now have the unintended consequences, or maybe they were intended, or maybe they 97 00:08:41,060 --> 00:08:46,480 are being co-opted and are now intended to inflict harm on people that are, you know, 98 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:51,320 conveniences, modern conveniences and modern miracles that are actually causing very deleterious 99 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,840 effects on health and other things that, you know, people need to take ownership of their 100 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,640 own lives and, you know, get away from those things or rectify them for themselves and 101 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,480 their families, and that's kind of all you can do because I don't think you can change 102 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,240 the system and, you know, there should be a law to make this better isn't really a good 103 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,480 thing because that's a kind of power that gets out of hand that people can't really 104 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:15,240 control or maintain in a way that's productive to human flourishing, but I'm not getting 105 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:20,440 on a soapbox right now, so I will continue and talk about the blue-collar heroes. I love 106 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,840 that Valko, this older guy, 50s, 60s, probably 60s with how much white hair he has, but then 107 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:31,400 again he could be like a Steve Martin, not Godzilla Steve Martin, but Steve, uh, stupid, 108 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:36,520 but Steve Martin, like the jerk Steve Martin, Little Shopper Horror Steve Martin, anyway, 109 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,680 but yeah, he basically tells these three young guys that are with him, hey, you guys leave, 110 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:46,000 you get out of here, you go, I'll handle this on my own, and they tell him, no, we're proud 111 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,600 members of the, you know, mechanic squad here, and we're going to help you, and he's proud 112 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:57,040 of them, and they work together, and it was just really wonderful, heartwarming feeling, 113 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,540 like these guys are surrounded by this technology, there's questions of what's going to happen 114 00:10:00,540 --> 00:10:04,160 with the tech and whatever, and there's this, you know, evil alien doing this, you know, 115 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:08,200 terrible stuff, and yet, uh, they're pulling together, they're using their humanity and 116 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:13,760 like the goodness that is in humans to like stand with this guy who was nobody going to 117 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,600 basically sacrifice himself for them, and then they're saying, no, we're going to be 118 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:22,120 here and not just abandon you and leave you to this fate, we're here for you and we're 119 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:23,720 going to help you in whatever capacity we can. 120 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:29,080 Now they didn't really help that much, but the little that they did I think is not, uh, 121 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:35,120 it's nothing to sneeze at, so it's just he's older, wiser, we see he has some combat prowess, 122 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:41,680 so he's crafty and he comes up with a cool plan to distract Barossa, and it in fact gets 123 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:47,160 him almost defeated, which was really cool, especially because they did it just with manpower. 124 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:52,720 Uh, Haruki and Bako teamed up to do this thing with electricity and, you know, liquid, and 125 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,720 uh, it was really cool, it was a really great moment. 126 00:10:55,720 --> 00:11:02,440 Um, and then Alien Barossa is very silly and very serious, like I said, he, you know, is 127 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,680 willing to murder people, he's doing this horror stuff where he's controlling people's 128 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:10,040 bodies and it's just not a good, uh, it's not a good look, it's not a good, well, I 129 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:14,640 don't know, it is good, it's bad what he's doing, but he's very good at being bad and 130 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,600 it's, you know, that's a good thing, right? 131 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:18,680 You get what I'm saying? 132 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:23,000 He's effectively being a bad guy and that's great for the show and that's great for the 133 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:28,240 evil character, but um, he's also silly. 134 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,760 And um, I think I mentioned that I called this ultra cut up because it's funny and there's 135 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:39,760 jokes and there's humor in his, uh, I guess in his depravity and in his, I don't know, 136 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,640 he's almost got like this cartoon violence type vibe going on and like when he starts 137 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:49,240 throwing the dirt in Zed's face and you know, gets dirt in his eyes and stuff. 138 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,520 Um, I'm going to put some dirt in your eye. 139 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:57,040 Uh, um, I really like Spider-Man, some of the memes are great. 140 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,800 Anyway, um, so yeah, that was, you know, it's interesting how they played with that and 141 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:05,440 how I wasn't bothered by that shifting in tone at all. 142 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:10,640 Um, but it was just interesting how they played with him and made him this, you know, really, 143 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:15,880 really bad, wicked character who's doing bad things and you know, enjoying hurting people 144 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,640 because it makes him happy to be bad. 145 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:23,760 And uh, I don't know, it was just really interesting and fun and I thought it was a cool thing 146 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:28,480 that they did with him and uh, I don't know, I don't know what more to say to that other 147 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:32,640 than I, I guess I'm wanting to comment on it because some people could be irritated 148 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:38,800 by the zaniness, but the zanian evil killer, um, it works for me, at least in this context 149 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,600 with this guy. 150 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:46,720 Okay, so one last major thing for me to address, which is too much power part two, the problem 151 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:52,960 with Ultra Fusion and how I would fix it and uh, FYI, or maybe it's FMI for my information, 152 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:57,760 according to Hargis Ultra Navi, uh, Jack and Zero have ornamental weapons. 153 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:02,560 So he says that Jack, just like Master Zero, has a bracelet that he turns into a weapon 154 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:04,640 or several different types of weapons. 155 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:11,560 And I find that interesting because part of how I would fix the problems I have with Zet 156 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:15,680 are as I would make the Zet Riser the Metal Riser, which I've talked about previously, 157 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:19,480 and I would also eliminate, I would eliminate the forms. 158 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,320 There would be, you know, vanilla Zet and then there would be like the uh, Alpha Edge 159 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:24,320 version. 160 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:31,120 Actually, if I had to just go to one alternate form, I would make it uh, man, Gamma Future. 161 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:32,720 Gamma Future looks so cool. 162 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,680 Um, that's what I would do. 163 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:39,960 Uh, I don't really under, like I understand, well, I basically understand the Beta Capsule 164 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,160 in the case of the original Ultraman. 165 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:48,600 The Beta Capsule was the device that allowed uh, Shin Hayata to become Ultraman somehow. 166 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:53,160 It channeled his power or whatever and then it activated within him in order for him to, 167 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,400 you know, for them to become giant and fight Kaiju and stuff. 168 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:59,880 Now, the Metal Riser could simply be the same thing. 169 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:06,080 It could in and of itself be the thing that makes it so that uh, you know, the Metal Riser 170 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,120 without any metals in it could be the thing, well, hold on, let me, let me back up real 171 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:10,120 quick. 172 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,160 It could be the transformation device by itself and that's it. 173 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:17,040 Just it itself with no metals in it could be the transformation device and I'll come 174 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:18,040 back to that. 175 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:22,760 But the thing I have about too much power is we, it feels like we're getting power up 176 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,840 after power up after power up. 177 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:33,920 Just episode, episode 8, no, rather episode 9, um, he attained three metals that Zero 178 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,260 didn't, oh sorry, yeah, Zet did not know what their function was. 179 00:14:37,260 --> 00:14:38,260 He forgot, conveniently. 180 00:14:38,260 --> 00:14:40,560 He didn't need to get those metals at the time. 181 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:45,040 I don't, I think we were shown who, there was Mibius and a couple other people, I don't 182 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:51,800 know who though, but um, those metals were shown and they were not able to be utilized 183 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,760 because he didn't know what they were for. 184 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:59,320 However, the previous episode, episode 8, he'd just gotten three more metals which unlocked 185 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:01,400 the Gamma Future form. 186 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:09,240 So we've got the, at least nine metals now for the three forms that he has, Alpha Edge, 187 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:11,600 Beta Smash and Gamma Future. 188 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:19,400 Then we have three more, so now we have a total of 12 metals and uh, then we have 15, 189 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:25,440 we have three more in this episode, so that there are now 15 metals that he has spread 190 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:29,440 across three forms and this super weapon and then one unknown one. 191 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:34,160 And I, uh, it just feels like too much. 192 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:39,160 It's ill defined in the beginning of the show on purpose what the metals are for, except 193 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:43,760 for somehow these metals are able to be utilized to counteract the Devil Splinters. 194 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:49,840 I guess you could say if the Devil Splinters are fragments of Belial or Belial cells or 195 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:53,160 however specifically they want to get on it, you know, talk about splitting the hairs on 196 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:59,960 a gnats behind, um, then these Ultra Metals which have the essence of various Ultramen 197 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:08,760 are a land of light or a light powered counter measure to the Devil Splinters, which that 198 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:11,240 I'm fine with and that does make sense. 199 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:17,560 However, uh, I guess it hasn't fully been defined how the, like the Belial Splinters, 200 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,960 the Devil Splinters infect Kaiju and make them run rampant. 201 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,240 I believe that's how that goes. 202 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:29,080 So uh, being that that's, you know, a darkness fueled power or energy, it makes sense that 203 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:37,360 they would corrupt and warp and uh, I guess forcibly alter a Kaiju so that they went rogue, 204 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,160 went bad, went on a rampage. 205 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:44,440 Now you wouldn't want to have the Ultramen, the Ultra Metals being the counter to that, 206 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,720 have the same effect where they infected somebody for lack of a better word and made them good, 207 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:52,520 made them do random acts of kindness or neutralize their evil or whatever. 208 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:58,680 You would just want to have them be a channel to opening a power, uh, of power from past 209 00:16:58,680 --> 00:16:59,680 Ultramen. 210 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:04,680 And that makes sense so I would keep that and I would keep the Metal Riser but uh, it's 211 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:09,120 just there's too much too soon and it doesn't really make sense why he would switch so 212 00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:13,720 all these forms like they can all fly, they can all fight. 213 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:19,240 He also has the power of that spear, the ancient spear for Pegula or whatever, left by an ancient 214 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:27,720 Ultraman which is a cool idea but uh, I feel like the, and then like we got to see Riku 215 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:35,800 as, or Gide, using his Zetriser as a weapon in and of itself, a blade-like weapon and 216 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,360 we get to see Gamma Future in this episode using it as a blade-like weapon and then it 217 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:43,760 literally, well, when it gets these uh, these other powers, or these other Ultra Metals 218 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:48,640 in it, which these ones are Father of Ultra, Zoffy, and I don't know who else but anyway 219 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:53,080 when he gets these ones, uh, and it activates the sword mode or whatever you want to call 220 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:57,520 it of the Zetriser, it occurred to me, oh, I know how to fix this. 221 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:03,480 You could instead of have, like, going back to the theme of the show or a thematic element 222 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:13,760 in the characters and their setup, uh, Zero calls Zet a one-third hero and you could have 223 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:18,320 a situation where the Ultra Metals do maybe different things for different people or at 224 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:23,600 least specifically with Zet, they give him the ability to tap into the powers of other 225 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:29,200 Ultras which is, that's what they say it does, it's inherited technique, space martial arts, 226 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:30,440 whatever, right? 227 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:36,480 But I would say be a little more specific than that, uh, have maybe heroic traits or 228 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:41,040 I guess like Ultraman X uses monster parts, uh, which sounds like a really great idea, 229 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,640 I think they're called cyber arms and he gets like kaiju parts for weapons, that's super 230 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:45,640 dope. 231 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:51,040 I would say why not just have Zet have a similar ability perhaps that either the Zetriser channels 232 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,200 power of these Ultras and it gives him one of their attributes or maybe let's say you 233 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:59,380 get three of them who are known for being strong or being fast or being great fliers 234 00:18:59,380 --> 00:19:02,920 or having ranged weapons or whatever, you get three Ultraman who harmonize across the 235 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:09,360 Ultra Series and you pick a trait to concentrate on and you say okay the contribution of these 236 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:14,200 Ultraman given willingly gives a, it opens up a limited channel of power and it allows 237 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:18,960 this guy to through the Zetriser have the ability to either do a thing, like it either 238 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:27,680 turns into a weapon, a different type of weapon, or it turns into, um, some sort of armor piece 239 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:33,160 or maybe even like, I don't know, like he gets someone's legs or their, uh, like Ace's 240 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:37,920 head blade or whatever, which he kind of has the two, like Zero has, um, which is interesting 241 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:42,280 when he becomes off edge because Zet himself just has a single fin, not the double. 242 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:46,880 Um, so like you could just play with his physiology some more and give him like different armors 243 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:51,360 like themed after the different Ultras and I think that would be a lot cooler and it 244 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:57,280 would almost be like a acknowledgement that he's, uh, nascent in his power and he's, you 245 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:03,640 know, growing and training and developing himself as an Ultraman and like, I don't know, 246 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:08,040 like almost give him like a sampler platter of, uh, movesets that he can have channeled 247 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:12,760 through the Zetriser and then like Vanilla Zet will have those intrinsically without 248 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:17,840 a Zetriser because I don't know that they, like if Zet appears in, um, other things like 249 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:23,840 the, uh, like the Absolute Tartarus or the Absolute Conspiracy, that kind of thing, 250 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,760 um, yeah Absolute Conspiracy, like when he appears in that I don't think he has the 251 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:31,440 Zetriser anymore and he doesn't use it, he just uses his powers however he does and like, 252 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:36,840 I don't know, that's a silly inconsistency that I really don't get and so anyway getting 253 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,800 to it, uh, or getting back to it and focusing a little bit more, he's, I think I've determined 254 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,800 he has 15 medals right now plus he has the spear. 255 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:49,200 I would say so far he's got a sword, he's got a spear, um, Gamma Future has like weird 256 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,120 magic powers that it gives him so that's, that's three weapons. 257 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:56,200 Let's say every three medals gives him one like big power set. 258 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,720 You could basically have like five weapons that he has. 259 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,480 You could give him, so I'd, I'd said keep the sword, give him a spear or you know keep 260 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,120 the spear but transfer it to the Zetriser because that just makes more sense and it 261 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:08,720 makes the toy like more appealing so I, and I kind of understand. 262 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,760 The medals are done for collectability, um, which I'm fine with them using toys to sell 263 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:16,720 or using, you know, the thing that as a toy selling platform but like, I don't know, make 264 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:21,200 it make more sense like, uh, they have like recolors of the Zetriser, um, with the dark 265 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,940 one, the Zarkra, Dark Zetriser that, um, Juggler uses and stuff. 266 00:21:24,940 --> 00:21:25,940 That's fine, that's cool. 267 00:21:25,940 --> 00:21:27,400 But like, I don't know, you can just make them parallel. 268 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:31,520 I know half his, he came into different monsters, like that's cool, that works for him but like, 269 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:36,520 I don't know, thematically it feels better since Zet is so obsessed with these other 270 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,120 heroes which I could see he's using the power of these heroes but like, if he gets weapons 271 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:44,240 and he like, uh, emulates these heroes instead with the weaponry that he gets and you kind 272 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,680 of just ditch the form thing, I just feel like that would be better. 273 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,120 That makes a lot more sense to me. 274 00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:51,760 Um, that makes a lot more sense to me. 275 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:58,080 Anyway, you can give him a sword, you can give him a spear, which the spear is also like a bow and arrow and it shoots ice stuff out of it. 276 00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,720 The sword is like a cool laser sword. 277 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,160 You can give him like a fire weapon or a lightning weapon. 278 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:07,240 Uh, I would say like a whip, so we got sword, spear, whip, um, maybe it's just like a, um, 279 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,640 not, uh, almost like, just like a hand blade, like a dagger type thing at first. 280 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,040 Like just the edge of it is a thing that he can use and it's like his default weapon when 281 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:15,040 he gets desperate. 282 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,240 So, so you've got the plain Zetriser and you've got, you know, plus whatever to become a sword, 283 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:23,760 then it becomes a spear, then it becomes, uh, maybe separately from the spear, the bow 284 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,840 and arrow and then like a whip. 285 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,000 That way he doesn't have to have like a gun. 286 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,920 You can give him the, the bow and arrow or it can be like a crossbow or something like 287 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:30,920 that. 288 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:31,920 I think five weapons. 289 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:32,920 I think those are cool. 290 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:33,920 Those are unique. 291 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,160 Um, if you could relate him to ultras again, I don't know ultra history, so I can't tell 292 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:41,080 you that I'm, you know, a relative new to Ultraman and it's, it's a little dense or 293 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,720 a little difficult to like, they all look the same, you know, like it's hard to tell 294 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,040 the difference between them. 295 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:50,280 I, I, uh, haven't like wiki'd a bunch of it like I have with Cominrader over the years. 296 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,480 But then again, I've been interested deeply in Cominrader for like 13 years and Ultraman 297 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:55,480 for like a couple. 298 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,640 So, uh, it's kind of weird to me, but yeah, I could, I mean, I think they'd be super cool 299 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,200 dagger or it's like a little hand blade, a knife, right? 300 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:08,200 Then it's a sword, then it's a, uh, spear, which is longer versions. 301 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,640 Uh, then it's a whip, then it's, I don't know, man, like a mace or something. 302 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:12,840 A mace would be cool. 303 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,160 Um, but maybe they didn't want it to feel too much like Ultraman X, but just like, I 304 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,160 don't know. 305 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:18,920 It just, it just doesn't make sense to me what they're doing with it. 306 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:25,520 And then, uh, it kind of feels like I would, I would like it if they did that better because 307 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,160 it wouldn't feel like he has all this power. 308 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:31,940 It feels like, um, he has like, you know, tools in his toolkit that he can whip out 309 00:23:31,940 --> 00:23:34,800 and switch through when he needs a better one. 310 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,980 And it just, I don't know, it would feel like it's less power cause like Beta Smash feels 311 00:23:37,980 --> 00:23:40,040 like he's supposed to be this really strong physical fighter. 312 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:46,800 Gamma Future feels like he's got just like, he's just like a more powerful, like ranged 313 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,800 fighter almost, sort of, um, with the duplicates and stuff. 314 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:50,800 I don't know. 315 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,760 It's just kind of weird how that all works out. 316 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:54,080 And uh, I just think it's kind of strange. 317 00:23:54,080 --> 00:24:00,520 So those are my, my thoughts on some of the problems with, uh, Zet and how they designed 318 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,080 the toy line and how you could fix it instead. 319 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:07,320 Um, but then maybe again, I should just go watch Ultraman X, but uh, like, you know, 320 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:11,160 it just didn't come out this year or in 2019 or whatever when Zet did or Z and Zet did, 321 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:12,160 but uh, you know, whatever. 322 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:17,640 Um, anyway, I'm going to go ahead and get out of here and you can check out all my stuff 323 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:22,640 in the show notes, including my children's picture book, uh, script, manuscript, uh, 324 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:23,640 inspired by Ultraman. 325 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,880 It's called Ava and the Grow Bug. 326 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,840 And I have a better version of it that I'm working on or that I've already edited and 327 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,820 improved and made adjustments to. 328 00:24:31,820 --> 00:24:34,480 And you're getting the, uh, the Beta version of it. 329 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,000 Uh, it might be a smash to read. 330 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,000 You never know. 331 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,240 I'm going to check that out and, uh, you can look forward to the gamma feature. 332 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:44,720 We'll have a better version of Ava and the Grow Bug out along with other Grow Bug books, 333 00:24:44,720 --> 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